Haley Barbour has popped into my radar now and then, but has left only a terrible impression - I don't know much specific about him. This bit from Wikipedia is both disgusting and hilarious:

During this failed [1982] bid for Senator a controversy arose at a campaigning stump. According to The New York Times, in the presence of the press an aide was complaining to Barbour that "coons" were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. Barbour warned the aide, in front of reporters, that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be "reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."

The rest of his wonderful Mississippi career description is similarly inspiring.